I have redhat ver5 lib6 so got the glibc version untarred the thing and DID THE EXPORT I tried to ./java and I get an error can not open javalib(i forget which one) file, any ideas do I havew to download diffs also i tried zcat (with the origional tar version that i downloaded??)and the shell went wild and looked as though it was going trough nonsence for about 5 min and so I stopped it out of ideas thanks Al